ROAR, the Registry of Open Access Repositories, is launching this Overview of
Open Access to showcases open access material from repositories around the
world. Picking one recent deposit at a time, the animated map cycles around
the world's repositories showing a description of the deposit itself, together
with a description and thumbnail of the repository's home page. Every few
seconds another deposit is chosen from another repository, making what we hope
is an interesting trip around the World of Open Access! The title of each
repository and each deposit is linked from the display, allowing viewers to
explore repositories and open access research from around the globe.

The Small Print!

This is an unfunded, temporary, experimental service provided by the
ROAR/EPrints team at Southampton. We hope to develop it into a useful tool for
advocacy: ultimately we would like to showcase your repository, your deposits
and your institution in the context of the world's scientific research. Please
bear with us if there are any early technical glitches! Any comments and
suggestions should be directed to Tim Brody (tdb2@ecs.soton.ac.uk), whereas
criticisms and complaints should be sent to Les Carr (lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk).

The Marketing Blurb

ROAR (roar.eprints.org) is a service which tracks the growth of Open Access
in almost 2000 repositories across the world. Together with our OpenDOAR
partners (www.opendoar.org), we seek to catalogue, analyse and promote the
adoption of Open Access services.